Topic: How to promote BTCTalk on YouTube? - page 2. (Read 499 times)

What about an open hyperlink using a short URL? Would their algorithm censor it when left in a comments section?

That was also my suggestion. It might work if there is no reference attached, just a short URL.

I am sure I have seen Youtube links left in the comments section referencing to a different URL but I cannot recall seeing external URLs.

Maybe there is a method to the madness when it comes to their algorithms but I cannot see it right now. It does not make sense to me if they are blocking links/URLs but not removing the videos based on the same topics those links/URLs point to.

Maybe you can ask Cyrus for potential solutions and workarounds for this problem.
If I remember correctly he or someone else created bitcointalk shorter links that worked at the time after Bitcointalk youtube channel was created.
We obviously need to speak and write in codes on yotube for many things to avoid bans and content deletion, or simply use some alternative video platform that is less restrictive.

That's interesting (but more so disturbing) that Google's doing this.  I haven't a clue why they'd want to censor anything related to bitcointalk, but I do know they're on a serious censorship binge in general--at least if you want to get your videos monetized.  You may have noticed there's a blacklist of words, which include COVID, rape (and pretty much anything sexual), curse words, and some other ones that just perplex me.  I only know about them because I'm seeing them bleeped out of videos.

I was also wondering where the forum's Youtube channel had gone to, and whether it had been scrapped altogether, as the thread for it has died off.  I'm thinking it's probably because YT told the creator that they couldn't monetize it, perhaps?

Yep.  Amazing how YT allows all of those videos with idiots not giving financial advice but censors all of this other, non-hype stuff.  Actually, it's not amazing.  It's pathetic, as is Google.

It's on their algo already, external links are more probably will be blocked on the comment section ^{(particularly crypto related stuffs)}. I remember crypto-related channels videos were removed ^{(But eventually recovered after some reviews)} due to some censorship update they did or whatever it is.

Might be better to use a link shortener like bitly but don't make it clickable when you comment, like anyone will just copy it or just type it since its shorter.

Probably an unpopular opinion and I apologize that this is not the answer you're looking for:

Kudos to you for promoting this forum, but I don't think people that watch crypto videos on YouTube aren't the ones that would be interested in an online forum. There's a reason why the likes of "top 10 altcoins to buy this month!" are the ones that gets a lot of attention, not the actual informative/educative videos.

Newbie welcome video - 3 videos complete

Having official Youtube account for Bitcointalk forum is good but if we don't have it, the community can contribute to make Bitcointalk forum great again by creating videos like above.

It helps newbies to understand more about forum rules and about Bitcoin, cryptoccurency. It will help to catch more people to join the forum if they have difficulty and find answer from videos made by Bitcointalk members.

I think it was an issue of things being hard to find and I don't think the bitcointalk show has been recommended to me even though many videos on cryptocurrency have - I'd be curious to see how many of their views come from subscribers or link clickers and how many come from the YouTube algorithm but I'm not sure if cyrus could get this data.

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@op, have you tried using url shorteners? You could put one of those in instead of directly linking to bitcointalk and then have clues in the video as to what the link is when you reference it - so you don't mention it in the description and have your video do badly.

This is a curious case. I'm aware of certain restrictions on crypto related words and projects on some platforms, but have not (till now) come across one targeting bitcointalk. It's more curious, considering that bitcointalk is not heavily promoted off the forum to be much of an issue.
The Bitcointalk Show by Cyrus has videos with "Bitcoin" and "Bitcointalk" in the title and they are still up, months after being posted.

Your guess is as good as mine that the software would pick up the underlying link. Google crawlers can read codes of websites and text associated with image tags.
The above suggestion although painstaking, is a good advice that could work.

Google bot is fine to approve scammers adlink but when it's bitcointalk then they have panic LOL.
It must be some strategic movement to create obstacle for Bitcoin.
Anyway, have a custom domain and create a website, blog or service it does not matter. Promote that website and the website will be mainly referring to bitcointalk. It's gonna be a lot of work but once a hyperlink in banned then you have no other way except choosing the hard path.

Note -I posted about this once in collectibles and it was moved to off-topic. Cyrus and I chatted briefly about it, and they agreed it didn’t really deserve to be there. Kind of left it at that until now, and believe Meta is appropriate at this point. .

My issue..I promote the forum a good bit & one of the main places I do so is YouTube but the fcks and their censoring algorithm always delete my posts whether I type “bitcointalk” “bitcointalk.org” “physicalbitcoin.com” (this is currently down but used to link to collectibles) “bitcoin talk website” etc etc.

I’m first curious if anyone knows why they censor the hell out of this site (yet don’t censor any bot scam posts). But mainly I’m curious if anyone has a work around?  I often try to help btc coin collectors I randomly find on there, I’ve tried to teach people how to redeem paper wallets etc.. but most of the time its too hard to fool the algorithm well enough to relay my message clearly.  (Curious if the bitcoin talk show faced any of these issues).

My only idea was to try to create a “hidden” hyperlink like I do for work where I have a link in my email body that says “book an Appt with me” but directs to my scheduler site. Guessing the software would likely pick up the  underlying hyperlink?  Any suggestions appreciated.